May I ask why I try to complete tests on the website and I cannot receive any winning points?
Hi Charlie, I’m sorry to hear you are not receiving any winning points, we’ll check into it and get back to you soon. Many thanks for bringing it to our attention.
Thanks for your concern!
Besides, I cannot accomplish the assessment test. Whenever I submit by pushing the button “Complete I Section”, the website will completely clean up my answers and ask me to re-do the assessment test again…
Thanks for pointing this out too. We’ll check into it as well.
Hi again, I’ve fixed the errors, can you please check?
You need to be able to spot the error in each sentence without the prompts.
Oh!!! Sorry, for misunderstanding the meaning. Thank you for your concern.
Besides, the Reading comprehension #16 in TOEIC.
The transcript is missing.
Could you please take a look?
Thank you very much in advance!
Thanks for pointing this out. We’ll add this task to the backlog.
We’ve checked and can’t reproduce this error. Can you please try again?
Hi again. Those are not bugs. He just made 3 mistakes.
Sorry, it’s my bad. Thank you so much for your instant response!
No problem, thank you for the review and for investing your time. If you like we can go through the three sentences you got wrong to make sure you understand what the correct answers are.
That sounds great! May I ask how we start discussing these problems? In this post or in the response to questions?
That’s up to you. Either option is fine with me.
Q12.The stakeholders demanded that the procedures ____ updated to reflect the current situation.
Ans: be
Q13. The company recommends not working on days ____ to increase productivity.
Ans: off
Q16. The data strongly _____ that customers are unhappy about certain aspects of the service.
Ans: states
Correct:
The stakeholders demanded that the procedures be updated to reflect the current situation.
You need the subjunctive here. Please let me know if you want more information on the subjunctive.
For Q12.
I thought that the verb is “are” because of the noun “procedures”, but I ignored the verb “demanded” which indicates the original verb…right?
It’s not past tense but the subjunctive: